As the Crow Flies. The Prodigal Daughter
AS THE CROW FLIES An imprisoned Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather's sales patter from behind his costermonger's barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps - his burning ambition is to own a shop that will sell...
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AS THE CROW FLIES
An imprisoned Charlie Trumper's earliest memory is of hearing his grandfather's sales patter from behind his costermonger's barrow. When Grandpa Charlie dies, young Charlie wants nothing more than to follow in his footsteps - his burning ambition is to own a shop that will sell everything: the biggest barrow in the world.
Charlie's progress from the teeming streets of Whitechapel to the elegance of Chelsea Terrace is only a few miles 'as the crow files'. But in Jeffrey's Archer's expert hands it becomes an epic journey trough the triumphs and disasters of the last century, as Charlie follows a thread of love, ambition and revenge to fulfil the dream his grandfather inspired.
THE PRODIGAL DAUGHTER
The titanic battle between two men obsessed with destroyingeach other follows on into the next generation. Florentyna Rosnowski, Abel,s daughter, inherits all her father's drive, but - as he excludes her from his will - none of his wealth. A woman gifted with beauty and intelligence, that dwarfs both Kane and Abel, as she batles for the highest office of all...
źródło opisu: Pan Books, Ltd., 2005
źródło okładki: zdjęcie autorskie
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Format: papier
ISBN:
9780330440882
Publish date: 2005 (data przybliżona)
Publisher: Pan Books, Ltd
Pages no: 1199
Edition language: English